![]() The original title was “Joy F- Club” and just from that I thought, “Whoa! This is going to turn everything on its head.” I think now it was very cathartic to have the creators of this, Cherry, Teresa and Adele, having experienced feelings of finding yourself and reconciling your relationships, parental, generational, racial - all these different parts of yourself. ![]() ![]() I was surprised as to why I was fully sobbing. Initially when I read the script, I cried. It was a movie that I already wanted to go see. I was really just happy that the movie was happening at all. The original title was “Joy F- Club” and just from that I thought, “Whoa, this is going to turn everything on its head.” I was a fan of Adele and Cherry and Teresa’s work individually, and just reading it I was so happy that not only was it a great Asian comedy script but it was the best comedy script I’d read in so long. Reading the script and seeing what your characters were going to experience, what were your initial reactions?Īshley Park: I was, first of all, so excited. The writers set out to write a n R-rated sex comedy, and they delivered. All three also produced the Lionsgate release (in theaters now), alongside R-rated comedy veterans Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Inspired by their own friends, “Joy Ride” is written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (“Family Guy”) and Teresa Hsiao (“Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens”), adapting a story they wrote with “Crazy Rich Asians” screenwriter Adele Lim, who makes her directorial debut. “The dimension and the depth and the prism of experience comes out of us being pent up - like, ‘We have a lot to say, still!’” said Hsu. “But there’s such relief in knowing I never have to explain this, because we all come from a certain perspective and understanding.” But it is also notably the first studio comedy to be written and directed by Asian women and center Asian American women and nonbinary stars.įor most of the main cast, it marks their first leading role in a major studio project - and like “ The Joy Luck Club” and “ Crazy Rich Asians,” it arrives with the eyes of the industry and AAPI community tracking its success. In the grand tradition of “ The Hangover” movies, “ Bridesmaids” and “ Girls Trip,” “Joy Ride” takes the bawdy buddy comedy genre for an inclusive and sex-positive spin. We’re tricking people into thinking deeply - with boob jokes. ![]()
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